My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are!